Emilyn Claid is a dance pioneer with a career as a performer and choreographer stretching back to the 1960s.
She co-founded experimental collective X6 Dance Space in the 1970s, and was artistic director of Extemporary Dance Theatre in the 1980s. In the 1990s she choreographed for Phoenix and CandoCo, and performed a series of iconic solo works in which she found an authentic voice as a lesbian artist. Emilyn is also an emeritus professor and a Gestalt psychotherapist and has recently published FALLING Through Dance and Life, (Bloomsbury 2021), a book about dance performance that re-thinks Western culture’s physical, metaphorical and psychological relationship to gravity.